Crash kid

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As Crash Kids are kids and young people referred to the motor vehicles steal in order to drive this wantonly scrap (English joyriding , legally unauthorized use of a vehicle ). The so-called auto scooter causes special property damage, here the stolen vehicles are driven and destroyed in parking lots similar to the bumper cars at public festivals. In Hamburg in the 1990s there was a crash kid scene that became known primarily through press coverage, for example: Dennis N. (* 1979), made up of children and adolescents who were criminally suspicious. The young people who have become conspicuous often come from a violent or broken home. In principle, however, the phenomenon can be observed in the most varied of sections of the population .

An example: "Andreas B."

A German “crash kid” known for his media presence is serial offender Andreas B. (* 1985), “Brummi-Andi”, from Monheim in the Rhineland . Andreas' mother left her husband and Andreas when he was nine. His father, a truck driver, couldn't handle the boy.

While driving a stolen 40-ton truck, Andreas ran over and seriously injured the Dutch traffic police officer Tom Kusters on March 25, 2000 when he was 14 years old when he broke a roadblock between Eindhoven and Venlo . Kusters, father of two children, died a few days later in a hospital in Eindhoven from the consequences of the accident.

Andreas B. was sentenced to four years' youth imprisonment by the Düsseldorf Regional Court in 2001 .

On May 28, 2010, the WDR broadcast a report on Andreas B. (“Leben vor die Wand?”) In the series “Menschen hautnah”. The film sparked a public discussion.

In the next few years he continued his criminal career and became a heavy- hitting criminal . He was sentenced again in January 2019, this time to four years and three months in prison.

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  1. ↑ Lutz Götze: Student-True. Related words . 2nd Edition. Bertelsmann Lexikon Institut, 2008, ISBN 978-3-577-07582-4 , p. 77 ( Google Books ).
  2. ↑ Hamburg, Dennis N., who "stole cars at the age of twelve and wrecked them."
  3. ↑ Why children risk their lives on paradisi.de, March 30, 2011.
  4. ↑ Sarah Buchholz: “Nobody is looking for me” - homeless young people in an individualized society . LIT Verlag, Münster 1998, ISBN 978-3-577-07582-4 , p. 17th f . ( Google Books ).
  5. ↑ Released early because of good leadership: "Crash Kid" Andreas B. free again , rp-online.de, August 22, 2004
  6. ↑ WZ December 17, 2008: Monheim: Andreas B. is on the road again - the police catch the Monheimer, who became known as "Brummi-Andi", without a driver's license
  7. ↑ WZ from May 28, 2010: Andreas B. - The former crash kid tells about his life today
  8. ↑ , Rheinische Post from May 27, 2010, page A3: The widow of the killed police officer cannot understand that he was given a forum on television without the victim side having a say. Protest against "Crash Kid" film
  9. ↑ Riddle solved Brummi-Andi reappeared - in jail in Aachen! , express.de, June 28, 2018
  10. ↑ Purified by no means: Notorious criminal “Brummi-Andi” mocks our justice system , express.de, November 11, 2017
  11. ↑ Claudia Hauser: "Brummi-Andi" has to go back to prison . Rheinische Post , January 21, 2019 . Last accessed January 21, 2019.

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